MCKEES ROCKS From the Grand Canyon to Cleveland, and California to back home in McKees Rocks, Black Forge Coffee House is doing what it can to help devastated concert venues.
Black Forge Coffee created its own Save Our Stages blend of java, available for $25 a bag, with proceeds given to independent concert sites whose employees are out of work due to the pandemic.
Believing the mission needed to be spread coast-to-coast, Black Forge owner Ashley Corts bought a van and hit the road, selling Save Our Stages (S.O.S.) coffee in pop-up fashion, outside of concert venues, tattoo shops or other small businesses that welcomed her.
90.5 WESA s The Confluence for Monday, February 8, 2021
On today s program: Pittsburgh Public Schools Board President Sylvia Wilson explains why she abstained on a vote to consider closing buildings, and what might happen next; PublicSource reporter Juliette Rihl found the Allegheny County Jail uses restraint chairs twice as often as any other county facility in the Commonwealth; and a Pittsburgh promoter and concert producer offers her take on how the pandemic is affecting the local music scene following Congress earmarking funds to help ease financial strain.
PPS Board President Sylvia Wilson says there should be more collaboration to fill the budget deficit
Pittsburgh concert venues like the Rex Theater, Howlers and Brillobox closed last year amid the financial hardships brought on by the pandemic.
Hoping to ensure other live music sites don t go out of business, 60 local musicians rallied to record a benefit song.
“SOS 2020,” short for Save Our Stages, comes out Friday on iTunes and major streaming platforms, and includes participation from Beaver Valley musicians like Keith Nelson, former lead guitarist from platinum-selling rockers Buckcherry; David and Hermie Granati from the nationally touring Granati Brothers; Jonathan Bagamery and Michele Dunlap from alt-rockers Murder For Girls; Jason Lizzi from The Redlines, and Chip Dominick and Maleena Dominick from Chip & The Charge Ups.
Pandemic. Politics. Protest.
Those were the central issues that dominated 2020. Our photographers selected images from our coverage that best capture and illustrate those major storylines of 2020.
Below are the images that told the story of the year in politics. We also have photo highlights of the pandemic and the protests. You can find a complete collection here of more than 100 of the very best shots WBUR took in 2020.
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Jan. 30 | Supporters cheered as then-presidential candidate Joe Biden stepped up to the podium before a speech at the Vince Meyer Learning Center in Waukee, Iowa, part of his “Soul of the Nation” election tour.
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